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Today, the OMCT is the only international NGO that provides first assistance directly to the women, men and children who have survived torture.

While there’s been some progress in recognizing the rights of indigenous peoples, they still face serious human rights violations on a daily basis…

” From Afghanistan to Guatemala, from Russia to the Philippines, from Egypt to Israel to Palestine, human rights groups have developed positive strategies…

They represent the reality of the tens of thousands of relatives of people disappeared due to political violence. Despite the complex suffering and…

Numerous testimonies from people sentenced to capital punishment have revealed that life on death row, particularly in inhuman physical and psychological…

Ankara-Brussels-Paris, June 27, 2022 - In Turkey, administrative harassment is used as a weapon to intimidate civil society, as documented in a report…

Ankara, Brussels, Paris, June 27, 2022 — In Turkey, administrative harassment is used as a weapon to intimidate civil society, as documented in a (...)

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine keeps resonating in neighbouring countries, where millions of terrified people – overwhelmingly women and children - have…

The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the Philippines Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA) open a call for participation for members of…

In Belarus, large, peaceful demonstrations challenged the official results of the 9 August, 2020 presidential election. This popular movement was met with unprecedented violence by the security forces. A few days into the repression, a team of lawyers from the Russian human rights group Committee Against Torture, a member of the OMCT SOS-Torture Network, went to Minsk to investigate the abuses and litigate cases. During almost three months, they worked undercover to document shocking cases of b...